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2. Background Job Processing
What is Background Job?
 Unlike Foreground jobs, Background
jobs are non-interactive processes that
run behind the normal interactive
operations. They run in parallel and do
not disturb
interactive(foreground) processes and
operations.
It is scheduled from SM36. You can
analyze it from SM37 by viewing its job

3. Advantages of Background
Jobs
 It reduces manual effort & automates the
task.
 It can be scheduled as per user's choice.
 It reduces user interaction and can run
seamlessly in the background without user
input
 Once you define the variant for background
job, the user doesn't have to worry about
value input in the field. Thus, user confusion
is also reduced.
 Ideal for time- consuming/ resource
intensive programs which can be scheduled
to run in the night(when system load is low).

4. How to schedule a Background
Job
 You can schedule the background job
using SM36. Planned or immediate jobs
can be scheduled.
 Step 1) Execute T-code SM36.
 Step 2) Fill the job name,
priority(A/B/C) and the target server.
Background jobs once scheduled on a
target server run on that server. Main
purpose of defining target server is the
workload balancing.

5.  Step 3) Click on "spool list
recipient". You will get output in your
mailbox. You can check email
from SBWP.
 Step 4) Insert your SAP username
and click copy button.
 Step 5) Click Step button to define
ABAP program, variant's details, etc.

6.  Step 6) Define program name, variant
details.
 Enter your program name,Variant
name in the field. If you have not
created variant as per your
requirement ,then leave it blank.
 Press save button.
 Step 7) Once you schedule the job
you will get the following screen.

8.  Step 8) Click Start conditions to fill start
date, end date, frequency,etc for job. If
you do not specify start condition then
job will always remain in scheduled
status. A job in scheduled status will
never run.
 Click on Date/Time(For periodic jobs).
If you click "Immediate" then job will start
running right away. But it will not be set
as periodic job. It's like "press and run".

9.  Define job's start date/time, end
date/time. The job will be released
only once it meets its Scheduled start
date/time.
 Press periodic values.

10.  Step 9) Click on Hourly/Daily/Weekly
period to define the frequency of the
job as per your requirement.We will
select Other Period

11.  Step 10) Here you specify the
recurring criteria of the job.For
example, You can have the Job run
after every 5 days from the Start Date.
Here we select job to run every 10
minutes

12.  Step 11) Click on save button.

13.  Step 12) Click on save again.

14.  Step 13) Click save again

15.  Step 14) Once Job step and start
conditions are defined the following
window will appear.

16.  Step 15) Press save.

17.  Step 16) Goto SM37 to know the
status of the job.

18.  Step 17) Select your criteria for the
job which you want to monitor.
 Put your job name and username who
scheduled the job.
 Select the status of the job.
 Specify the date range. In our
scenario we just specify the end date
while keeping From Date Open.

20.  Step 18) You will get the following
screen. Look at the status, it's a
released means start conditions are
met, and the job is in the queue is
waiting for background work
process to be free.

21. How to Deschedule a
Background Job
 Descheduled jobs will not run in the future.
Remeber, you cannot deschedule the job
once it's in active status.
 Step 1) Execute SM37.
 Step 2) Fill the criteria.
 Job name and username by which job is
scheduled.
 Select the status. To deschedule the job you
can only select Released/Ready status.

22.  Specify the date range.
 Press Execute(F8) button.
 Step 3) Select specified job and
press Job -> (Released ->
Scheduled).
 Step 4) You will find the message in
the status bar once you press
"Released -> Scheduled".

23. How to monitor a Background
Job
 Monitoring background job is
important because once you schedule
the job it might be cancelled due to
some error. To investigate the root
cause use SM37.
Step 1) Execute T-code SM37.
 Step 2) Fill the required criteria.
 Job name and username(who
scheduled the job). You can put * to
get details of all jobs scheduled by all
the users.

24.  Select job status which you want to
monitor. If you find that a background
job is not completed , select Canceled
status.
 Put the date range as per your
requirement.

25.  Step 3) You will get a screen as
shown below.

26.  Step 4) Click on Job Log button to
trace the error due to which job was
cancelled.

27.  Step 5) You will get the following
details. In the below example, job was
cancelled since there was an issue
with RFC connection to the remote
system. As a resolution use SM59 to
check if there is an authorization
issue to the remote system.

28.  You may face issues
like tablespaces are full, duplicate job
is running with the same name and
timing, job is selecting or updating
large data, etc.
 You can also check such jobs from
SM37. Follow the procedure as below.
 Step 1) Execute SM37.
 Step 2) Fill the required criteria.

29.  Job name and username(by which job
is scheduled).
 Select job status which you want to
monitor. If you find a system
performance issue or if a task is not
completed for a very long time, then
select active status.
 Put the date range as per your
requirement.

30.  Step 3) Look into Duration column
(which signifies the job is running
since n seconds). If you find a large
number in duration then investigate
the job details from job log. Some jobs
use a large number of data.Using
SE16 check table entries for the tables
used by the job.

31.  How to correct them? Follow the
below set of procedure –
 Step 1) As shown above, Execute T-
code SM37 and select the job with
active status.
 Step 2) Select the active job which is
causing problem.
 Step 3) Click the Job->Check status.

32.  Step 4) In the status bar of the
window you will find as below
message. This will repair Job Status if
there was a problem
 Step 5) If still job is in running status
then goto SM50. Below screen will
open. Have a look in "Reasn" column
which shows any errors or exceptional
issue. Investigate it further.

34. Conclusion
 In this Presentation I have explained
about the Background job Processing.
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